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[Strawboss]

The Capri from the 70's was a German Ford, sold here as a Mercury, not to be confused with the Mercury/Mustang clone from the 80's. Not sure the tractor motor sold here was the same as the motor offered in Europe. Anybody remember the awful Mercury Merkur XR4T/Scorpio? It was German for "Mercury,Mercury". Almost as bad as the Chevy/Toyota Nova sold in South America in the late 80's early 90's, "Nova" in Spanish translates to "NO-GO". Audi, like Toyota almost went out of business in the 80's from those 800 folks who "accidently" mashed the accelerator instead of the brake.

[Conrad]

The Capri from the 70's was a German Ford, sold here as a Mercury, not to be confused with the Mercury/Mustang clone from the 80's. Not sure the tractor motor sold here was the same as the motor offered in Europe. Anybody remember the awful Mercury Merkur XR4T/Scorpio? It was German for "Mercury,Mercury". Almost as bad as the Chevy/Toyota Nova sold in South America in the late 80's early 90's, "Nova" in Spanish translates to "NO-GO". Audi, like Toyota almost went out of business in the 80's from those 800 folks who "accidently" mashed the accelerator instead of the brake.

The '79 Capri at least wasn't a German Ford and it was a Mustang clone.  http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=6337.msg74674#msg74674

[Strawboss]

I know, thats what I meant, the German Capri was a much better car than the Pinto but it can't really be compared to the FOX body cars as they were just so different, same name only. Ford would have gone out of business if it weren't for its vastly superior European cars of the 70's and 80's that we never got here except for the Capri, Fiesta and  the Merkur which was an anomoly.